Botswana’s financial system is beginning to emerge from its recent turbulence, with foreign-exchange reserves rebuilding, banking liquidity improving and pressure on government funding easing. But economists say the recovery now faces a more difficult test: whether a rebound in diamond...

For 40 years BCL Mine kept Selebi-Phikwe alive. By October 2016 it was dead. The closure didn’t happen overnight. It was the end of a 5-year fight against geology, prices, and empty pockets. The Closure BCL was never meant to...

Botswana’s commercial cattle subsector grew by 12.3 percent between 2015 and 2025, with the number of commercial cattle holdings increasing during the period, Statistics Botswana has revealed. The findings are contained in the 2025 National Agriculture Census Livestock Report, whose...

Three years after ordering the break-up of a major fuel retail network to reduce market concentration, Botswana’s competition regulator says the concentration it sought to address remains largely unchanged. The Competition and Consumer Authority (CCA) has approved the sale of...

When Aliko Dangote talks about business, he doesn’t talk about profit first. He talks about the doors that were closed — and the decision to build his own. He recalls that Nigeria’s first cement company was established in 1956. “Our...